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The latest study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, finds that a seven-week course of acupuncture helped many patients ease the pain of chronic lower back pain. The study is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The patients who volunteered for the study all ranked their chronic low back pain as at least a 3 on a scale of zero to 10. Researchers divided the patients into several groups. Some received the usual care for their back pain: medicine and checkups at their doctors. Other groups had the usual care — and also got acupuncture.
"Most people got better," explains researcher Dan Cherkin, a senior investigator at Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle. "It's just that the people who got acupuncture were more likely to do better."
About 40 percent of the usual care group saw improvements. About 60 percent of the acupuncture group improved.
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